Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Chapter 7 - "CE N'EST PAS LOGIQUE" or "You've Got the Poiint There?"

I've finally finished reading chapter 7....

Nisbett mentions that easterners try to find the middle way between extreme propositions
by using the result of two conflict study.
I think this is really true. in conversations, Japanese tend to make and allow the third choice for people to answer when asking questions.
Americans don't make their decision that ambiguous. they make a clear distinction between YES and NO.
In my opinion, i prefer western way of thinking this time because things can't be both true and false.
but i think its very difficult for Japanese to quit preferring the vague stuff because Japanese tend to think the ambiguous things to be some kind of virtue.

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